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Could Your Address Determine Your Dementia Risk?
Your address might influence your risk for dementia, a new study says.
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Need A 'Eureka' Moment? Take A Good Nap, Study Says
Do you enjoy "eureka" moments, when sudden insight or inspiration strikes seemingly from nowhere?Then you definitely need to sleep on it, a new study says.
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France Imposes Smoking Ban on Beaches, Parks
France on Sunday banned smoking in parks and on beaches, part of efforts to protect the public from passive smoke and create the country's first non-smoking generation.The ban, published in the official government gazette on Saturday, also applies to bus shelters and areas...
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US Gun Suicides Continue Record Rise
Gun-related suicides in the U.S. reached record highs for the third straight year in 2023, a new report on gun violence says. About 27,300 gun-related deaths - 58% of all gun deaths - were suicides in 2023, according to research from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
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Ozempic May Benefit Some Type 1 Diabetes Patients
People with Type 1 diabetes who need to lose weight can benefit from the blockbuster GLP-1 drug semaglutide currently approved only for Type 2 diabetes, according to results from a small trial. Semaglutide is the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's diabetes drugs Ozempic and...
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WHO Group Fails to Answer How COVID-19 Began
An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic started released its final report Friday, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion: Scientists still aren't sure how the worst health emergency in a century began. At a press...
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Supreme Court Preserves Key Element of Obamacare Preventive Care
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday preserved a key element of the Obamacare law that helps guarantee that health insurers cover preventive care such as cancer screenings at no cost to patients.
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Everyday Packaging Sheds Tiny Plastics Into Food
Opening a bottle or unwrapping a piece of deli meat could be adding tiny plastic particles to your food, new research reveals. Microplastics and nanoplastics can enter food during packaging, processing and even normal use, like twisting a bottle cap or tearing off a plastic...
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Turning Your ADHD Into a Strength at Work
Jeremy Didier had taken her son to a psychologist for a possible ADHD evaluation when she spotted an article about women with the condition. As she read it in the waiting room, she thought to herself: They're describing me. "Lots of risk-taking, lots of very impulsive...
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High-Fiber Diet Reduces Risk for Narrowed Arteries
Noshing on veggies, grains, beans and other high-fiber foods can help your heart as well as your gut health, a new study says. People with low-fiber diets are more likely to have narrowed arteries caused by the buildup of plaque, researchers reported recently in the journal...
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Fasting Might Not Be Necessary Prior To Surgery
Fasting is a well-known hassle associated with surgery. Patients are required to go without food or liquid for hours because of fears they'll vomit while under anesthesia, potentially causing pneumonia if stomach contents are inhaled. But this long-standing practice might not...
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CDC Panel Recommends RSV Therapy for Babies
An advisory panel of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended the use of Merck's respiratory syncytial virus therapy, Enflonsia, for infants 8 months or younger, whose mothers did not receive a preventive shot during pregnancy.U.S. Health...
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Updated COVID Shots Effective Against New Strains
Updated COVID-19 vaccines are keeping up with new coronavirus strains and remain effective for keeping people out of the hospital, a new study says. The study, which examined the effectiveness of the 2023-2024 COVID vaccines against the XBB and JN.1 Omicron variant waves,...
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CDC Advisers Endorse Flu Vaccines Without Thimerosal
The Trump administration's new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall's flu vaccinations for just about every American but threw in a twist: Only use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism. What is normally a routine step...
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Cancer Leading Cause of Death Globally by 2050
A new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that cancer will be the leading cause of early deaths worldwide by 2050, with cases projected to rise by 74%. The Cancer Atlas, 4th Edition, produced by ACS and the International Agency on Cancer (ARC),...
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The Healthiest Way to Cook Pasta
Pasta is healthiest when cooked al dente. The Italian phrase means 'to the tooth" and describes the texture of cooked pasta when it's tender but firm and chewy when you bite into it. If your pasta is mushy and soft, you've blasted right past al dente and into well done. When...
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What to Know About Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal
The Trump administration's vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it's time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial preservative called thimerosal. It's a question seemingly laid to rest years ago, as...
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Poll: Most Support School Vaccination Requirements
There's widespread support among Americans for requiring that kids be vaccinated before they can go to school, a new Harvard survey has found. About 4 in 5 U.S. adults (79%) say parents should be required to have their kids vaccinated against preventable diseases like...
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FDA Updates COVID Shot Heart Risk Warning
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men. Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is usually mild, emerged as a complication after the...
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Don't Take These Supplements Together
Timing is everything when it comes to taking certain supplements. Taking some supplements too close together can affect absorption or potentially cause side effects. For instance, calcium can interfere with the absorption of iron, so these two should not be taken together....
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New Monthly Obesity Shot Leads to Big Weight Loss
Alternatives to weekly injections of weight-loss drugs may on the way. A monthly dose of a new drug called MariTide helped participants in a phase 2 clinical trial shed about 20% of their body weight over a year, researchers reported Monday in The New England Journal of...
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Agenda for Kennedy Vaccine Advisers' First Meeting
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under intense scrutiny from medical experts worried about Americans' access to lifesaving shots.First on the agenda is an awkward scenario: Kennedy already announced...
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Fitness Trackers Not Accurate for People With Obesity
Fitness trackers aren't accurately assessing the physical activity of people with obesity, a new study argues. Differences in walking gait, speed, energy burn, and other factors mean that folks with excess weight aren't getting an accurate read from their devices, researchers...
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Study: Heading A Soccer Ball Alters Brain Chemistry
Heading the ball can be a dramatic, game-changing play during a soccer match. Unfortunately, soccer players pay a price every time they make this move, a new study argues. Bouncing a soccer ball off your head disrupts a person's brain even if it doesn't result in a...
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Millions of Kids Vulnerable to Preventable Diseases
Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Protection from measles in particular dropped in 100 countries between 2010 and 2019, unravelling...